• 한국초전도저온공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국초전도저온공학회 2001년도 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.178-181
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• 2001

Two methods can be used to correct the undesirable magnetic field of MRI. One is active shimming method and the other is ferro-magnetic shimming. Ferro-magnetic shimming method is more inexpensive, more convenient in operation and more effective on correcting magnetic field. So, nowadays, it is the general method for shimming the commercialized MRI magnet. We have developed a 1.5T MRI magnet and its ferromagnetic shimming system. Using the ferro-magnetic shimming system, we have improved the field homogeneity of the 1.5T MRI magnet.

• 대한전기학회논문지
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.24-29
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• 1996

Magnetic field theories for the design of highly homogeneous magnet are introduced and a nonlinear optimization method for the design of actively shielded superconducting magnet is presented. The presented design method can optimize both main coil and shielding coil simultaneously by setting constraints on stray field intensity at a specified distance from the magnet center. A 2-Tesla actively shielded superconducting magnet, with 90cm bore diameter, is designed using the presented method. The field homogeneity is 2ppm/30cm DSV and the 5 gauss stray field contour is within 4m axially and 3m radially from the magnet center. (author)., 7 refs., 6 figs., 3 tabs.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1996년도 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.210-212
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• 1996

A nonlinear optimization method for the shape optimization of actively shielded superconducting MRI magnet is presented. The presented design method can optimize both main coil and shielding coil simultaneously by setting constraints on stray field intensity at a specified distance from the magnet center. A 1 Tesla actively shielded superconducting MRI magnet, with 30cm bore diameter, is designed using the presented method.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.181-188
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 영구자석 자기공명영상시스템에 나쁜 영향을 기치는 외부 자기 잡음을 효율적으로 차폐하는 기술을 서술하였다. 유한요소법 전자계 해석을 통하여 영구자석의 주자계 방향과 일치하는 자기 잡음 성분이 자기공명영상에 주로 영향을 미치는 것을 밝혔고, 이의 해석 결과를 기반으로 자기잡음센서, 보상코일, 그리고 코일구동기로 구성되는 능동형 자기 잡음 차폐시스템을 개발하였다. 개발된 자기 잡음 차폐시스템은 수 Hz 미만의 저주파 대역의 자기 잡음에 대하여 30dB 이상의 차폐율을 보였으며, 0.3Tesla 전신형 자기 공명영상시스템에 자기 잡음 차폐시스템을 적용하여 자기 잡음에 의한 영상 잡음이 크게 개선됨을 실험적으로 밝혔다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회 논문집 전기기기 및 에너지변환시스템부문
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• pp.22-25
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• 2001

The research results on the superconducting magnet for whole body MRI are presented. The magnet consists of main coil with 6 solenoid coils, shielding coil with 2 solenoid coils and 6 sets of cryogenic shim coil. The ferromagnetic shim assembly is installed on the inside wall of the room temperature bore for shimming inhomogeneous field components generated due to manufacturing tolerances, installation misalignments and external ferromagnetic materials near the magnet. Also, the magnet is enclosed with the horizontal type cryostat with 80cm room temperature bore to keep the magnet under the operating temperature. The magnetic field distributions within the imaging volume were measured by the NMR field mapping system. Through the test, the central field of magnet was 1.5 Tesla and the field homogeneity of 9.3 ppm has been obtained on 40cm DSV(the diameter of spherical volume) and using this magnet, comparatively good images for human body, fruits and water phantoms have been achieved.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.75-80
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• 2023

Rare earth barium copper oxide (REBCO) materials have shown the possibility of high-temperature superconductor (HTS) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) magnets due to their elevated transition temperature. While numerous MRI magnet designs have emerged, there is a growing emphasis on estimating the cost before manufacturing. In this paper, we propose two designs of REBCO whole-body MRI magnets: (1) 1.5 T and (2) 3.0 T, the standard center field choices for hospital use, and compare their costs based on conductor usage. The basis topology of the design method is based on discretized solenoids to enhance field homogeneity. Magnetic stress calculation is done to further prove the mechanical feasibility of their construction. Multi-width winding technique and outer notch structure are used to improve critical current characteristic. We apply consistent constraints for current margins, sizes, and field homogeneities to ensure an equal cost comparison. A graph is plotted to show the cost increase with magnetic flux growth. Additionally, we compare our designs to two additional MRI magnet designs from other publications with respect to the cost and magnetic flux, and present the linear relationship between them.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B
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• 제50권12호
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• pp.587-591
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• 2001

This paper describes the general and efficient design method of an axial and a radial shim coils to correct field impurities of various harmonic orders in the imaging volume of Magnetic Resonance Imaging magnet. Shim coils are optimized by BCLSF subroutine of IMSL, which is the well-known commercial package for optimization, aiming at maximizing the magnitude of the desired field component as well as minimizing other field components. In order to evaluate their effect, the developed method was applied to the MRI magnet constructed in KERI.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1995년도 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.153-155
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• 1995

We fabricated superconducting magnet for MRI and tested it using automatic field mapping system. This magnet has 20cm diameter of room temperature bore for the sample access. In this paper, the fabrication of MRI magnet system and the test results of field homogeneity are described.

• 한국초전도저온공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국초전도저온공학회 1999년도 제1회 학술대회논문집(KIASC 1st conference 99)
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• pp.113-116
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• 1999

The shield effects of the actively shielded superconducting magnet systems for MRI were investigated. The magnetic field was calculated by FEM considering the winding error and the homogeneity of the magnetic field at the 30cm DSV was presented. The 5 gauss stray field line was restricted within 5m form the magnet center.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.375-385
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• 2016

Recently, several implantable hearing aids such as cochlear implant, middle ear implant, etc., which have a module receiving power and signal from outside the body, are frequently used to treat the hearing impaired patients. Most of implantable hearing aids are adopted permanent magnet pairs to couple between internal and external devices for the enhancement of power transmission. Generally, the internal device which containing the magnet in the center of receiving coil is implanted under the skin of human temporal bone. In case of MRI scanning of a patient with the implantable hearing aid, however, homogeneous magnetic fields of the MRI might be interfered by the implanted magnet. For the above reasons, the MR image is degraded by large area of artifact, so that diagnostics are almost impossible in deteriorated region. In this paper, we proposed an external coil system that can reduce the artifact of MR image due to the internal coupling magnet. By finite element analysis estimating area of MR artifact according to varying current and shape of the external coil, optimal coil parameters were extracted. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed external coil system was verified by confirming the artifact at real MRI scan.